Notice2025-19407
Duke University et al.; Application(s) for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 190 (Friday, October 3, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48024-48026]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-19407]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Duke University et al.; Application(s) for Duty-Free Entry of
Scientific Instruments
Pursuant to Section 6(c) of the Educational, Scientific and
Cultural
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Materials Importation Act of 1966 (Pub. L. 89-651, as amended by Pub.
L. 106-36; 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR part 301), we invite comments on the
question of whether instruments of equivalent scientific value, for the
purposes for which the instruments shown below are intended to be used,
are being manufactured in the United States.
Comments must comply with 15 CFR 301.5(a)(3) and (4) of the
regulations and be postmarked on or before October 23, 2025. Address
written comments to Statutory Import Programs Staff, Room 40005, U.S.
Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230. Please also email a copy
of those comments to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#155063743b5e7c785561677471703b727a63"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f7b28196d9bc9e9ab78385969392d9909881">[email protected]</span></a>.
Docket Number: 25-019. Applicant: Duke University, 324 Blackwell
Street, Durham, NC 27701. Instrument: Narrow Linewidth, Tunable, High
Power, 326 nm Laser (greater than 1 W output power). Manufacturer:
Shanghai Precilasers Technology Co. Ltd., China. Intended Use: The
instrument is intended to investigate exotic quantum systems based on
neutral indium atoms. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to
the applicant, there are no instruments of the same general category
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner
of Customs: May 9, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-020. Applicant: University of Southern
California, 825 Bloom Walk, Los Angeles, CA 90089. Instrument: Single
Frequency Fiber Laser (606 nm wavelength and 5 W output power).
Manufacturer: Shanghai Precilasers Technology Co. Ltd., China. Intended
Use: The instrument is intended to control molecules at the single-
quantum state level to develop novel quantum information and
computation systems, perform quantum simulations of complex many-body
systems, and harness the unique properties of molecules for quantum
sensing applications. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to
the applicant, there are no instruments of the same general category
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner
of Customs: May 9, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-021. Applicant: New York University, 726
Broadway, 1070 New York, NY 10003. Instrument: Fiber Laser (2923 nm
wavelength and 100 mW output power). Manufacturer: Shanghai Precilasers
Technology Co. Ltd., China. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to
study quantum optics in subwavelength arrays of ultracold strontium
atoms. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to the applicant,
there are no instruments of the same general category manufactured in
the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May
14, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-022. Applicant: University of Colorado, JILA
Dept, Campus Box 440, UCB Boulder, CO 80309. Instrument: Narrow
Linewidth Laser (647 nm and 649 nm wavelength and greater than 1W
output power). Manufacturer: Shanghai Precilasers Technology Co. Ltd.,
China. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to
continuously repump the multitude of accessible states during photon
cycling in a molecular laser cooling experiment. Justification for
Duty-Free Entry: According to the applicant, there are no instruments
of the same general category manufactured in the United States.
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May 20, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-023. Applicant: University of California,
Riverside, 3401 Watkins Drive, Riverside, CA 92521. Instrument: Basic
3D-microfabrication system with Piezo 100 microns--MicroFAB-3D.
Manufacturer: MICROLIGHT3D SAS, France. Intended Use: The instrument is
intended to be used to study microfluidic devices such as microneedles,
microvalves, implantable optofluidic devices. Justification for Duty-
Free Entry: According to the applicant, there are no instruments of the
same general category manufactured in the United States. Application
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May 8, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-029. Applicant: California Institute of
Technology, 1200 E California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125. Instrument:
Narrow-Linewidth Laser System (813 nm Wavelength and greater than 15 W
output power). Manufacturer: Shanghai Precilasers Technology Co., Ltd.,
China. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to conduct
quantum science experiments with strontium atoms in optical tweezer
arrays. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to the applicant,
there are no instruments of the same general category manufactured in
the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May
30, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-032. Applicant: Washington State University,
French Administration, Building 240, PO Box 64120, Pullman, WA 99164.
Instrument: External cavity diode laser; High power laser (820nm,
1012nm, 480nm, 960 nm Wavelength and greater than 70 mW, 80 mW, 200 mW,
and 40 mW output power, respectively). Manufacturer: Spectraline
Photonics Technologies (Wuhan) Co., Ltd., China. Intended Use: The
instrument is intended to be used to generate two-qubits quantum
computing system. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to the
applicant, there are no instruments of the same general category
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner
of Customs: May 30, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-039. Applicant: Stanford University, 348 Via
Pueblo Rd., Stanford, CA 94305). Instrument: 782 nm High Power Narrow
Linewidth Laser (greater than 5W output power). Manufacturer: Shanghai
Precilasers Technology Co. Ltd., China. Intended Use: The instrument is
intended to be used to study cavity quantum electrodynamics.
Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to the applicant, there
are no instruments of the same general category manufactured in the
United States. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June
17, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-050. Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139. Instrument:
Cryogen-Free Dilution Refrigerator (base temperature below 10mK,
cooling power at 20mK of more than 20 [micro]W, cooling power at 100mK
of more than 400 [micro]W, and cool down to base temperature in less
than 30 hours unloaded). Manufacturer: Bluefors Inc., Finland. Intended
Use: The instrument is intended to be used to perform research in
superconducting quantum computing. Justification for Duty-Free Entry:
According to the applicant, there are no instruments of the same
general category manufactured in the United States. Application
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 23, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-051. Applicant: UChicago Argonne LLC, 9700 S Cass
Avenume, Lemont, Illinois 60439. Instrument: Fully Motorized Transfer
System, HQ2D MOT. Manufacturer: HQ Graphene Systems B.V., Netherlands.
Intended Use: The instrument is intended to efficiently perform dry or
semi-dry transfer processes of high-quality two-dimensional (2D)
materials. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to the
applicant, there are no instruments of the same general category
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner
of Customs: June 11, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-052. Applicant: California State University Long
Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840. Instrument:
Dilution Refrigerator Insert (with cryogenic microwave filtering).
Manufacturer: Oxford Instruments, U.K. Intended Use: The
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instrument is intended to study quantum materials with properties that
are useful for future technologies in quantum information science and
photovoltaics. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to the
applicant, there are no instruments of the same general category
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner
of Customs: June 5, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-053. Applicant: University of Wisconsin-Madison,
1150 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706. Instrument: Dilution
Refrigerator System with Bottom--Loading Mechanism, Vibration
Isolation, Optical Access and Vector Magnet (base temperature below 10
mK, cooling power greater than 250 [mu]W at 100 mK and more than 12
[mu]W at 20 mK) . Manufacturer: Bluefors Inc., Finland. Intended Use:
The instrument is intended to investigate 2D superconductivity and 2D
magnetism as emergent quantum phenomena in 2D quantum materials.
Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to the applicant, there
are no instruments of the same general category manufactured in the
United States. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 3,
2025.
Docket Number: 25-054. Applicant: Cornell University, 211 Clark
Hall, 142 Sciences Drive, Ithaca, NT 14853. Instrument: Electron
Microscope- TESCAN AMBER X 2 GMH S8251X S/N 124-0231. Manufacturer:
TESCAN Group, Czech Republic. Intended Use: The instrument is intended
to be used to view the structure and electronic properties of the
material at the atomic scale to learn about its properties.
Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to the applicant, there
are no instruments of the same general category manufactured in the
United States. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June
25, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-055. Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139. Instrument:
Dilution Refrigerator with Passive Damper and Helium Battery (Base
temperature below 10 mK, cooling power more than 14 [micro]W at 20 mK,
and cool down to base temperature in less than 24 hours unloaded).
Manufacturer: Bluefors Inc., Finland. Intended Use: The instrument is
intended to be used to study the electrical resistance of two-
dimensional material devices, such as graphene. Justification for Duty-
Free Entry: According to the applicant, there are no instruments of the
same general category manufactured in the United States. Application
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 17, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-056. Applicant: University at Buffalo, The State
University of New York, 224 Crofts Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260. Instrument:
Duo-Axis Rotation Probe. Manufacturer: Multi-Field Low Temperature
Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., China. Intended Use: The instrument is
intended to provide precise measurements of superconducting thin films
and quantum materials in cryogenic environments, supporting angular-
dependent studies of critical current density and magnetic anisotropy.
Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to the applicant, there
are no instruments of the same general category manufactured in the
United States. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June
18, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-057. Applicant: Yale School of Medicine, 899
Howard Avenue, CMHC, New Haven, CT 06519. Instrument: Supernova-100
Miniature two-photon microscopy imaging system (mini 2-photon imaging
with two lasers and two different wavelengths). Manufacturer: Transcend
Vivoscope, China. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to
investigate the effects of the primary cannabionoids found in cannabis,
tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) on neurodevelopment
when exposure occurs during early life. Justification for Duty-Free
Entry: According to the applicant, there are no instruments of the same
general category manufactured in the United States. Application
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 17, 2025.
Dated: September 30, 2025.
Tyler J. O'Daniel,
Acting Director, Subsidies Enforcement, Enforcement and Compliance.
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